Well Cody is still hanging in there! I went in today and everything is "about" the same... my doctor isn't very big on giving out exact numbers, dont ask me why. I asked her to strip my membranes and she did. It hurt pretty bad but as soon as she was done the pain was gone, so not too bad of an experience.
As soon as I got home I went to the restroom and had a huge gush of blood, I am assuming it was from the sweep. I have been spotting ever since but it seems to be tapering off now. I had a lot of cramping afterwards but that is starting to taper off too. From everything I have read it says if it is going to do anything it will do it within 24-48 hours. So only time will tell!
She did say that she gives me a 75% chance of going on my own before the scheduled induction... have no idea where she gets that number from. She also said she still thinks I will be able to deliver vaginally which is a relief for me because I am small and afraid he is going to end up too big to fit through my pelvis! Let's hope she is right!
11 more days til induction...
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
"37 Week" Appointment
So I recently found out my dr has me 2 days ahead of what I have me... making my due date 1/1. Whatever... I dont think it really matters at this point. So today was my "37 Week" appointment according to her... so for the fun details...
I am slightly more effaced and slightly more dilated but nothing significant. But I am honestly glad that at least SOMETHING has changed... she even made the comment "look I put you on bed rest to stop things and now nothing's happening!" I was like yeah, tell me about it!
My GBS came back negative so that is good.
And we are scheduling an induction for Dec 27th if he is not here by then! It is soooooo nice to have a date set. I will be over 39 weeks by then. So now I know I will not be pregnant for any longer than 18 more days!!!
She also told me the pain in my back is from him dropping... I told her it felt like he was sitting in my butt, lol. She says he is really low and she seemed surprised that I haven't really changed or been experiencing many contractions.
When I got home from work today I went to the restroom and noticed some brown tissue looking stuff... then I wiped again and there was a lot more brown discharge. I lost part of my MP when I was in PTL then I have been losing little bits and pieces here and there and then on 11/30 I lost a pretty big piece of it. It has always been yellow though and never brown. I realize this could be from the internal, but I have never bled from an internal before so Im holding out hope that it means *something*.
Friday is a full moon so wish me luck!
I am slightly more effaced and slightly more dilated but nothing significant. But I am honestly glad that at least SOMETHING has changed... she even made the comment "look I put you on bed rest to stop things and now nothing's happening!" I was like yeah, tell me about it!
My GBS came back negative so that is good.
And we are scheduling an induction for Dec 27th if he is not here by then! It is soooooo nice to have a date set. I will be over 39 weeks by then. So now I know I will not be pregnant for any longer than 18 more days!!!
She also told me the pain in my back is from him dropping... I told her it felt like he was sitting in my butt, lol. She says he is really low and she seemed surprised that I haven't really changed or been experiencing many contractions.
When I got home from work today I went to the restroom and noticed some brown tissue looking stuff... then I wiped again and there was a lot more brown discharge. I lost part of my MP when I was in PTL then I have been losing little bits and pieces here and there and then on 11/30 I lost a pretty big piece of it. It has always been yellow though and never brown. I realize this could be from the internal, but I have never bled from an internal before so Im holding out hope that it means *something*.
Friday is a full moon so wish me luck!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Sharing some pics...
These are from the baby shower... I was in lots of pain :(
And these are of the completed nursery!
And these are of the completed nursery!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Some updates on me...
Well here I am almost 2 weeks after my hospital visit and I am still pregnant! Hard for me to believe since the first doctor I saw that day at the hospital wasn't very optimistic on me making it much longer. I go in for my appointment at 9am tomorrow morning to see how lil Cody is hanging in there. Hopefully there will be no more progress!
I was a bad girl this weekend and did not stick to my bedrest like I should have. There were some things that I felt just HAD to be done before I could give birth, so I did those things and just rested the rest of the time. I didn't lay down nearly enough though, I was sitting up more than I should have been.
So what I've been experiencing the last week...
~More pelvic pressure... this is what got me admitted to the hospital in the first place, hopefully it means nothing right now!
~Menstrual-like cramping in my back - so I know this is supposed to be a labor sign, but it wasn't coming in waves or timeable, basically my back hurt for 30 or so minutes then went away, and then it would happen again a few hours later. Its been about 18 hours since I last had it so Im hoping it was just "false" labor pains
~Have had contractions, but not at regular intervals, or so it doesn't seem, I have such a hard time recognizing contractions
~A SORE tummy... but as you will see in the pics below, I think its cuz I grew so much this week!
~A very high heartrate - I simply put the crib bumped on the crib and my HR got up to 130 BPM. Waking up this morning it was 108 BPM. I will be asking my doctor about this tomorrow.
I am leaving you with belly pics from 33 and 31 weeks. It looks like I may have dropped a lil... what do you think?
I was a bad girl this weekend and did not stick to my bedrest like I should have. There were some things that I felt just HAD to be done before I could give birth, so I did those things and just rested the rest of the time. I didn't lay down nearly enough though, I was sitting up more than I should have been.
So what I've been experiencing the last week...
~More pelvic pressure... this is what got me admitted to the hospital in the first place, hopefully it means nothing right now!
~Menstrual-like cramping in my back - so I know this is supposed to be a labor sign, but it wasn't coming in waves or timeable, basically my back hurt for 30 or so minutes then went away, and then it would happen again a few hours later. Its been about 18 hours since I last had it so Im hoping it was just "false" labor pains
~Have had contractions, but not at regular intervals, or so it doesn't seem, I have such a hard time recognizing contractions
~A SORE tummy... but as you will see in the pics below, I think its cuz I grew so much this week!
~A very high heartrate - I simply put the crib bumped on the crib and my HR got up to 130 BPM. Waking up this morning it was 108 BPM. I will be asking my doctor about this tomorrow.
I am leaving you with belly pics from 33 and 31 weeks. It looks like I may have dropped a lil... what do you think?
31 Weeks
33 Weeks
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Back from the doctor....
and officially on bedrest. I wont lie and say Im not bummed... we have enough money saved up JIC something like this happened... but I really didnt want it to happen. Every week that I am off of work is an unpaid week. Im going to have to look into selling tupperware or something, lol.
She checked me and there hasn't been much change since I got released from the hospital, she says she wants to keep it that way so no activities for me. However, if by 35 weeks I am still pregnant, she will consider letting me go back to work then.
So basically I get to be really bored for the next 2.5 weeks.... but I guess if thats what it takes to keep my lil man baking a little longer then thats what it takes. She says he will prob stay put until 35 weeks if I stay on bedrest but she thinks as soon as I start moving around again that labor will start again. POOP.
Oh... I did just reschedule my maternity pics for next thursday though... sorry but nothing is going to stop me from doing those!
She checked me and there hasn't been much change since I got released from the hospital, she says she wants to keep it that way so no activities for me. However, if by 35 weeks I am still pregnant, she will consider letting me go back to work then.
So basically I get to be really bored for the next 2.5 weeks.... but I guess if thats what it takes to keep my lil man baking a little longer then thats what it takes. She says he will prob stay put until 35 weeks if I stay on bedrest but she thinks as soon as I start moving around again that labor will start again. POOP.
Oh... I did just reschedule my maternity pics for next thursday though... sorry but nothing is going to stop me from doing those!
Monday, November 10, 2008
Some more info
Well I finally got discharged from the hospital on Friday. I was not very happy at all with my experience there. I originally went into the hospital on Tuesday for pre-term labor... I was having ctx every 3 or so minutes and I was 80% effaced and a fingertip dialated. They put me on trib and it didnt work so they started mag which also didnt work so they sent me to a hospital that could "better" take care of me if I were to deliver a baby that premature. Lemme just say... I will never go back to the "better" hospital again.
Once I got there I started getting pain in my right side in my kidney area... I told them about it and they gave me a pill for gas... I told them it was not gas but they had me take it anyways. Of course it didn't get any better and they had to give me nubane so I wouldnt be in so much pain cause everytime I started getting to be in pain the contractions got closer together.
They monitored me in L&D until the middle of the night Wednesday night, then they sent me to the antepardum unit saying they were going to get me an u/s to see if I had kidney stones. My MIL had come up there and saw I had blood in my urine and suggested maybe I had kidney stones and then all of the sudden thats what they think I have. We waited 24 hours for an ultrasound for them to come back and tell me that they didnt see any stones just a swollen ureter so I was probably trying to pass a stone.
The next morning they decide to discharge me even though I was contracting every 3 minutes still and told me I did not have to be on bedrest as this was all probably because of the kidney stones... WHAT?? I wasn't even IN any pain until I got to the hospital. And either way... I am effaced and now 1-2 cm dialated... but they told me to resume normal activites and that I could go back to work.
So I called my Dr friday after I left and was told by the nurse to absolutely not go back to work until I have a follow up with my Dr. I really think the people at the hospital were quacks. Neither the mag nor the trib would sto my ctx's... and thats OK? I think not.
I did get to go to my baby shower Saturday, but I was not able to really enjoy myself. My kidneys have been KILLING me to where I am barely able to even move. I think I may have passed the stone now though, as I am not in NEARLY as much pain. I was taking hydrocodone to keep the pain away... I felt really bad taking it but I just can't be in that much pain. At the hospital they were having to give me nubane and morphine just to keep me from screaming.
Hopefully my dr. can give me more answers tomorrow at my appointment... at this point I honestly feel like I have no idea what is going on.
Once I got there I started getting pain in my right side in my kidney area... I told them about it and they gave me a pill for gas... I told them it was not gas but they had me take it anyways. Of course it didn't get any better and they had to give me nubane so I wouldnt be in so much pain cause everytime I started getting to be in pain the contractions got closer together.
They monitored me in L&D until the middle of the night Wednesday night, then they sent me to the antepardum unit saying they were going to get me an u/s to see if I had kidney stones. My MIL had come up there and saw I had blood in my urine and suggested maybe I had kidney stones and then all of the sudden thats what they think I have. We waited 24 hours for an ultrasound for them to come back and tell me that they didnt see any stones just a swollen ureter so I was probably trying to pass a stone.
The next morning they decide to discharge me even though I was contracting every 3 minutes still and told me I did not have to be on bedrest as this was all probably because of the kidney stones... WHAT?? I wasn't even IN any pain until I got to the hospital. And either way... I am effaced and now 1-2 cm dialated... but they told me to resume normal activites and that I could go back to work.
So I called my Dr friday after I left and was told by the nurse to absolutely not go back to work until I have a follow up with my Dr. I really think the people at the hospital were quacks. Neither the mag nor the trib would sto my ctx's... and thats OK? I think not.
I did get to go to my baby shower Saturday, but I was not able to really enjoy myself. My kidneys have been KILLING me to where I am barely able to even move. I think I may have passed the stone now though, as I am not in NEARLY as much pain. I was taking hydrocodone to keep the pain away... I felt really bad taking it but I just can't be in that much pain. At the hospital they were having to give me nubane and morphine just to keep me from screaming.
Hopefully my dr. can give me more answers tomorrow at my appointment... at this point I honestly feel like I have no idea what is going on.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Pre-term labor
Wohoo... Not. I went to the dr on tues for my reg 2 wk appt and told her I had been experiencing some back pain and pelvic pressure... She checked me and I was 80% effeced... That's from 0% effaced two weeks earlier. She then hooked me up to the NST and I was contracting every few mins though I could not feel them. She sent me to the hospital where after 4 doses of trib and 2 hours of mag they could not get the ctx's to stop so they transferred me to a hospital with a NICU that is equipped for a -34 weeker. I got here and was on mag for another 24 hrs and the ctx's slowed but haven't stopped. They are now thinking that I may also have kidney stones, I get an u/s in a few hours to look at my kidneys and if there are no stones I get to go home on strict bedrest, if there are I will have to stay til they pass. I'm typing this from my blackberry so its kinda spacy and there are parts left out but I wanted to give a general update. I will def be having Cody in the next few weeks we are just hoping it will be later rather than sooner. Ill update more when I get a better chance to.
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